It's a Jungle out there!

Well, oh boy oh boy oh boy...
We had an adventure today. If mom was here, she would never have let me do this by myself...hehe.

This morning around 10am Betsye and I went to the bus stop. We saw the City Hoppa bus coming and got on. We rode the bus all the way downtown..its kinda far to walk. It cost us 20 shillings to ride the bus. We were downtown once before with a friend who lives here but we didn't pay attention to where we were going. We were headed downtown blindly this time. We had a list of items to get, but we were not given a store name or street name to find these stores. The only thing that looked familiar was this Statue in the middle of a roundabout....so when we saw that we got off the bus.
We stood on the side of the street for a minute trying to figure out which way to start walking. We knew where the souvenior stores were at because they were right next to the Hilton hotel and thats easy to find...so thats our meeting place and point of reference. We just began walking and walking and walking...we didn't konw where we were going. There were tons of people!!! and so many cars!!! Its a real task and risk to cross the street here. I feel like I have become a real expert at crossing the street. Even if the cross walk light is red you still go it doesn't matter, ha. I feel like we almost got run over several times, oops. Last time we were down here with Dorcas and Vickie we went to a 100 shilling store...where everything in it is 100 shillings. It is equivalent to our Dollar store here in the states. It took us a long time to find that store. When we were at the kenyan dollar store we bought ice cube trays!!!! yay!!! Now we can have cold beverages! I am sooo tired of warm drinks. I love ice. We kept trying to call Dorcas and have her give us a street name for where the store is located...eventually we figured it out. We walked amlessly for a couple hours. We walked around down town from 11am-130pm. We called a taxi to take us to Java House where we ate lunch! shoot...I had myself a double mocha milkshake. I needed it after that adventure downtown. There weren't too many white people downtown. We got lots of offers from people...they wanted to give us a ride somewhere or just have us come in there store...everywhere we went people were staring at us and wanting us to talk to them. I was determined to find those stores so...there was no stopping to talk to people. Ha, but we made it back alive. The first thing we did when we got back was take a nap!

now we are ready to take the other three students who are coming tonight downtown and show them around....because now we know street names!! Tomorrow we are going to an orphanage and that should be fun, im excited.